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Biophysical Journal Citation Generator

Generate references in Biophysical Journal from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.

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What a Biophysical Journal reference looks like

Biophysical Journal is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.

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Journal article

1. Babonis, L.S., and M.Q. Martindale. 2022. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119:e2113701119, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2113701119.

Book

1. Kuhn, T.S. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.

Web page

1. IPCC. 2021. Climate change 2021: the physical science basis. August 9, 2021. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

Journal article with 26 authors

1. Harris, C.R., K.J. Millman, S.J. van der Walt, R. Gommers, P. Virtanen, D. Cournapeau, E. Wieser, J. Taylor, S. Berg, N.J. Smith, R. Kern, M. Picus, S. Hoyer, M.H. van Kerkwijk, M. Brett, A. Haldane, J.F. del Río, M. Wiebe, P. Peterson, P. Gérard-Marchant, K. Sheppard, T. Reddy, W. Weckesser, H. Abbasi, C. Gohlke, and T.E. Oliphant. 2020. Array programming with NumPy. Nature 585:357–362, doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2.

Biophysical Journal at a glance

Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.

Used mainly in medicine.
In the text, the first source is cited as (1).
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
First names are shortened to initials.
DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix.
Web pages are cited without an access date.
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
The style file was last updated in December 2025.

The guide this style follows: download.cell.com

How Biophysical Journal compares with APA Style 7th edition (numeric, superscript)

Where Biophysical Journal differs:

For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix.
The reference list is single-spaced, where APA Style 7th edition (numeric, superscript) is double-spaced.
In the text, the first source is cited as (1).

The same journal article in APA Style 7th edition (numeric, superscript)

1. Babonis, L. S., & Martindale, M. Q. (2022). A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS, 119(19), e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119

Open APA Style 7th edition (numeric, superscript)